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Contributing to this blog:
- "Dave" is Dave Barry, who is a humor columnist and presidential contender.
- "judi" is Judi Smith, who is Dave's Research Department, as well as being interested in men.
- "Walter" is Walter, a bone from the penis of a walrus.

(The problem with the world appears to be that ... people can't accept that nasty things happen in it ... nature's way is ... starvation, disease, eat or be eaten and lingering (or sudden) death ... IMHO)

Seems as if I recall from someplace in the distant and mist enshrouded past, that the "fear/adrenaline" that occurs under such a circumstance is actually a digestive aid, helping the eater to more fully absorb the nutrient factors of the eatee ...

If a BBC TV programme called Round the World in 80 Treasures comes your way, be sure to watch it. The presenter, an insane art critic called Dan Cruikshank, goes to Chile and picks up fast food at the airport - a roast guinea pig with its little legs sticking in the air, and proceeds to eat it with relish.
In Australia he eats witchety grubs, lamb's testicle in Jordan and lots of other yummy traditional delicacies. With the notable exception of steak and kidney pudding.

Yes FD, there are bait stores. My local one is Buck's Bait, where I once fed worms to a baby robin that the owner rescued. So cute. TCK, the frogs don't get crickets regularly; you're right, it's too much work. We mostly feed them shrimp pellets. But if we're bored and in a good mood, we'll go catch a couple. I imagine the neighbors think we're quite mad, hopping around the yard snatching at handfuls of grass.

For me, the most disturbingly hilarious thing in the story was the link at the bottom that reads, "No crispy, fried monkeys here, says inspector." I was SURE it was going to be about some freaky restaurant (motto: "We'll fry anything!"), but alas: It's about a fire in an animal park.

So - I'm assuming that they're now going to have to kill the guinea pig before putting it in the cage? Does it make it more humane to have a human bop the little things on the head with a miniature truncheon or the like?

as it's being noted above, i also feed live crickets to my turtles occasionally. they wouldn't eat the dead ones i got in a can once (they were actually cheaper than lives ones, and really, have you ever heard of crickets in a can before? crickets in a can - wbagnfarb).

Duck- if you're really lucky, you can find a Live Bait vending machine. As in, insert your quarters and out comes a tub of worms. Usually found outside convenience stores near lakes and/or rivers. I have a great picture of one outside a local Walmart, next to all the Pepsi and Sam's Cola machines. I'll try to figure out where it is and post a link to it.

sct72, used to live there very near there in far off past. It was a bad place to be, not just for the weather. Kind of like if hell decided to franchise its operation.

When we finally left, there had been a drought for years, and in the middle of that the Colorado river started to overflow its banks, so people were losing their houses to flood in the middle of a dessicated desert.

sct72, used to live there very near there in far off past. It was a bad place to be, not just for the weather. Kind of like if hell decided to franchise its operation.

When we finally left, there had been a drought for years, and in the middle of that the Colorado river started to overflow its banks, so people were losing their houses to flood in the midst of a desiccated desert.